@rapskat: "I just discovered Festival, oh boy the fun I'm going to have with this!
Scripting is fun and easy enough, and now I can make them *talk*?! WOOHOO!
I love Linux! :-)
rapskat -  00:43:47 up 8 days,  7:03,  3 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.62, 0.73
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
		 Mark Twain"
    @spike1: "<quote>
Aye, I was fiddling with that last week...
Wonder if there's anyway to make it take bitchx irc as an input...
:)"
    @iso88591QlinF8nut: "<quote>
Rappy, also check out MBROLA (voice fonts).  Download their xmas.mp3 file,
and also see if you can find their virtual French singer, Melissa.
Interesting stuff.  Decent quality, for speech synthesis.
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Tux:     "If you bought a computer with Windows, sorry, you paid too much!"
Ballmer: "We need to get paid!""
    @rapskat: "Error log for Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:48:01 -0600:  Linønutlinønut caused a
Page Fault at address <email_address>, details...
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That is simply incredible!
Well, now I know Benny Benassi's little secret...lol.
rapskat -  12:19:38 up 9 days, 18:39,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.18, 0.43
You will be married within a year, and divorced within two."
    @rapskat: "Error log for Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:08:26 +0000:  7 caused a Page Fault at
address <uEXqd.26290$<email_address>>, details...
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Pretty simple actually, just pipe the output of whatever command to it,
like so...
   foo | festival tts
Just fiddling with it, I found out that it is smart enough to know when
saying date and times.  So instead of saying "deck zero one two-thousand
four", it actually says "december first two-thousand and four".  Cool!
Thanks for the link! :-)
I checked this out for a visually-impaired customer of mine as possibly a
way to introduce them to Linux. It is nice, however it has a long ways to
go I think before I could recommend it.
rapskat -  12:33:52 up 9 days, 18:53,  3 users,  load average: 0.22, 0.22, 0.25
Q:	Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an interpolation
	function, the more expensive it becomes to compute?
A:	That's the Law of Spline Demand."
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